Newsletter - Wetherby & District U3A

Wetherby & District
NEWSLETTER
February 2015
Congratulations to Wetherby U3A
on becoming 5 years old in March
Contents include
Groups reports
pp 10 - 16
Groups timetable
pp 17 - 22
A publication of the Wetherby & District University of the Third Age
www.wetherbyu3a.org.uk
Our U3A Ethos
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Wetherby & District U3A is a self-help organisation run entirely
by volunteers, relying on everyone making a contribution of
some kind.
We look to members to give time and effort as well as to receive
the informal learning, enjoyment and friendship that the various
activities provide. Our U3A can only thrive if all members accept
this principle.
A new group only comes about when a member expresses an
interest in a particular area and others join to form the group
and run it themselves with support from the committee.
Everyone can play some part in our U3A, whether it be leading
or taking an active part in a group, serving on the committee or
volunteering to help in some other capacity.
Courtesy & Common Sense Reminders
for U3A Group Members
The U3A is run by volunteers who give their own time freely for the
benefit of our groups so:
Please
· take note of the organiser’s phone number and/or email address
in order to:
a. let the leader know if you are unable to attend a meeting
b. let the leader know if you wish to leave the group, as there
may be a waiting list.
If you miss three sessions in a row without contacting the
leader, it will be assumed that you no longer wish to be a
member of that group.
· arrive at the group meetings in good time.
· make a note of meeting dates and times.
· remember that individual groups are self-funding, so contributions may be requested when there are expenses to be covered.
Thank You
DATES FOR YOUR DIARY
Wed 25 February
Open Meeting Methodist Church 2.30 pm
Stuart Atkins conductor, bandleader, etc “My life in Music”
Fri 27 February
Group Leaders Meeting Methodist Church 2 - 4 pm
Group Leaders will have already had details.
Thurs 5 March
New Member Meeting St James Church Scout Hall 1.30 pm
Tues 24 March
Renewals Coffee Morning St James Church Scout Hall 9.30 - 12
See below and Renewal Form insert
Wed 25 March
Open Meeting Methodist Church 2.30 pm
David Lee "Reminiscences of a TV Watchdog"
Tues 21 April
Anniversary Lunch The Bridge Inn, Walshford
see page 4 and Application Form insert
Wed 29 April
Open Meeting Methodist Church 2.30 pm
Sir Thomas Ingleby "Castle Life in the 21st Century"
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RE D TIONS
Most of you will be aware from our various email commuUE
nications since January 2015 that renewal subscriptions
MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL
should be paid by 31 March 2015. This notice is a general
reminder, and more particularly for those who do not have access to email.
The new membership system, Wild Apricot, is now up and running on our website.
As well as new members being able to sign up and pay online, existing members will
be able to renew online too. We would like to encourage members to renew online
using our membership system because this is much less work for those that have to
process these payments as it is an automatic process resulting in a renewals
confirmation email being sent to you.
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If this is not for you ……….…..…., you can still pay your £14
at our Renewals Coffee Morning on Tuesday 24 March in St
James Church Scout Hall from 9.30 am – 12 noon. A Renewal form is included with this Newsletter for those of you who have
not already renewed. Please use this form if you are renewing
by post or bring the form with you if you are renewing at the
Coffee Morning.
*Please note that in future, membership cards will not be issued and your Renewal
Confirmation email or letter can be used instead.
Your Committee
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Wetherby & District U3A
ANNIVERSARY LUNCH
Our popular established Annual Lunch will be held at
The Bridge Inn, Walshford
on Tuesday 21st April 2015
Price £17 per ticket
Our speaker will be
Dulcie Lewis
author of the humorous book entitled
“Not Just Yorkshire Puddings”
For further details including your choice of menu and a booking form, please see
the Application Form at the centre of this Newsletter.
Maeve Brook Events Organiser 572360 muther@mjwoodall.freeserve.co.uk
Calling All Fans of
LOTHERTON HALL
A Potential Shared
Learning project
This month the Historic Houses Groups had their second winter meeting at which
Stephanie Davies, the Community Curator, spoke with infectious enthusiasm about
the servants at Lotherton Hall, a local Edwardian mansion now belonging to Leeds
City Council.
Lotherton has a connection with Florence Nightingale, who was a second cousin
and godmother to Lady Gascoigne. The Gascoigne family owned the estate,
extensive lands and three coal mines, as well as several other properties.
Lotherton plans to mount an exhibition which shows the family connections with
Florence Nightingale using letters and diaries. This will be mounted early in 2016.
They are seeking a small group of voluntary helpers to transcribe letters and diaries.
These volunteers would work under Stephanie’s guidance and the project would take
about three months to put together.
If you are interested in helping with this project involving one of our local landmarks, please contact me. I will compile a list of volunteers and we will meet with
Stephanie at some point to discuss how it is to be done and in what format. I think
volunteers need sufficient computer skills to produce a word document and to be able
to email it.
Lesley Newnham 845773 l.newnham@talktalk.net
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Wetherby & District U3A 5th Anniversary &
Approaching 1000 Members
Back in the autumn of 2009, Lesley Newnham and Mary Bentham met in a charity
shop in Wetherby and had a coffee together. From this meeting, Wetherby & District
U3A was born.
120 people came to the launch in March 2010 to hear what it was all about and 20
people offered to run groups and a small committee was formed. The inaugural
meeting was held a month later and 180 people signed up. Five months later the
number of groups had doubled.
THE FIRST COMMITTEE
Apologies for the quality. It’s only a photocopy of the local newspaper. How
many people can you recognize?
Here we are now, 5 years later, with 19 of those original groups still running, and a
total of 84 groups run by our members for our members. We are expecting our
1,000th member sometime in the coming year. The growth rate has been phenomenal and we must be the fastest growing U3A in the UK. This has been mainly due to
the quality of our members who volunteer in so many ways.
We hope that in the future we will be able keep Wetherby and District U3A as lively
and productive as it is today, with the same quality volunteering that has brought us
so far so quickly.
Your present Committee
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A 2 DAY EXCURSION
to WARWICK & to WADDESDON MANOR (Buckinghamshire)
ON TUES 28 AND WED 29 JULY 2015
using the same coach company that we went to Bletchley Park with last year
This trip should be of interest to many groups including Historic Houses, Architecture, Gardening, History, Photography, Art Appreciation etc.
WARWICK
lies on the River Avon and boasts a dramatic castle and medieval buildings .
WADDESDON MANOR
is a jewel in the crown of the National Trust.
It was the home of Baron de Rothschild built in the style of a French Chateau.
It is truly magnificent with an outstanding art collection.
The cost of this trip is £140 per person with a single supplement of £20. This includes
all coach travel, dinner, B&B at Holts Hotel, Steeple Aston, Oxfordshire, admission
to Warwick Castle and Waddesdon Manor. A discount of £10 applies if you are a
National Trust member (at the time of booking).
If you are interested please send a stamped address envelope to Maeve Brook, 25
Church Drive East Keswick Leeds LS17 9EP & a booking form will be sent to you.
STOP PRESS
I am currently exploring the possibility of a 5 day holiday to Northern Ireland during
late May 2016.
This would include visits to The Titanic Experience, The Giants Causeway, Mount
Stewart NT, a conducted tour of Belfast, and a possible visit to Stormont. This would
be a sea crossing taking our own coach with Kevin Jackson (some of our members
have travelled with him previously). I estimate the cost would be around £450 (that
is only a rough estimate at this early stage).
I need to know if there is any interest in this kind of trip before committing to the individual bookings & putting it altogether. If this appeals to you & you may be interested can you please email me to let me know.
Maeve Brook Events Organiser 572360 muther@mjwoodall.freeserve.co.uk
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Have you Googled today?
What's on the web site?
Since the web site went live in July 2010, it has been visited 35,000 times and the
numbers are growing steadily. Tucked away at the bottom of each page is a little
meter, which records really useful information about our visitors. For example, when
it was launched, Internet Explorer was the most popular browser, used on PCs and
laptops - now Safari dominates with over 65% of visits, reflecting the rapid growth of
Apple's iPads and tablets among the over 50s.
So what are visitors looking for on the web site? Our statistics show that when they
log off over 50% are reading information about our 80+ groups and activities. Most
visitors come from around UK but there is one regular American visitor - Google.
Google sends its web robot (“bot”) every week, to check and record any changes. The
web site was specifically designed to be Google-friendly and brings us most of our
visitors as a result of their wide range of searches. We have new members who have
joined us after looking for search phrases like, "table tennis Wetherby" and "Wetherby
Spanish Classes" rather than combinations like “Wetherby U3A” or even “Wetherby
University”. That helps people find us which helps us grow.
What information is there on the web site?
For a start there is a description of each of our 80 or so groups: what they do,
where and when they meet, the Group Leaders' contact details and so on. Some of
the groups now have additional information about themselves, which you can read by
clicking on the button for more information. So for example, you can read the Travel
Group’s diary of their visits and see some of the photos they recorded. The Painting
Groups have a wonderful record of some of the members' paintings and the Digital
Photo Group page proudly displays some of their stunning images. Exploring a bit
further you can read where the walking groups are planning to walk, or where the
Birding groups are going or what books the Book Group has read and enjoyed. Please
take a few minutes to explore your web site - there's a lot of information there if you
have time.
Renew your membership online.
You can also download copies of the latest Newsletter or Monthly Memo, minutes
of the Committee Meetings, membership forms, etc. One significant change this year
is the online membership renewal option. If you have a current debit or credit card,
you can renew online - simply and easily - and receive an automated response. This
big step forward will save hours of time dealing with the flood of over 900 cheques
with the inevitable missing signatures, wrong dates and incorrect amounts. Try it
online for yourself this year! It works a treat!
Interested in web sites using Dreamweaver and CSS?
I’ve managed the web site for 5 years now and it seems prudent to share some of
the updating work - if there is someone among our membership who has the experience and time to spare - maybe an hour or two a week at most……. Interested? It’s
great fun, I promise! Just give me a call.
Roger Hocking 587165 greendrift@gmail.com
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Our first ever SHOWCASE
held on 16th December 1914
The Performers
Members join in the demonstration
by the FOLK DANCE GROUP
The UKELELE GROUPS present a lively
programme to demonstrate their skills
SINGING FOR FUN tempt us to join in
with some all time favourites
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Our first ever SHOWCASE
held on 16th December 1914
The Exhibits
The EMBROIDERY GROUP
exhibit their work
The PAINTING GROUPS
exhibit their work
Exhibition by the DIGITAL
PHOTOGRAPHY GROUP
And Finally Yourselves !!!
Over 200 of you enjoying a
relaxed
and
entertaining
afternoon thanks to the
enthusiasm and talent of so
many of our members.
Well done.
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Calling all U3A members who have researched their FAMILY HISTORY
Would you be willing to share your research methods and results by giving a
short (30 – 45 minute) presentation to the W&D U3A Family History group? We meet
on the first Friday of each month in one of the meeting rooms at St James Church,
Wetherby.
… and a message to all U3A members on how to be a good ancestor …
If at the moment you aren’t interested in this very addictive pastime, maybe your
descendants will be. In which case, perhaps I can persuade you to leave your
descendants an accurate and interesting trail to follow. May I suggest the following
10 rules on how to be a good ancestor:
1. Thou shalt tell the whole truth and nothing but the truth, eg do not shave a
few years off your age when you complete that very official form!
2. Thou shalt have a good memory, eg do not put down on the census return
that your place of birth was the family home town of Newcastle, when in
fact you had arrived early whilst your mother was on holiday in Scarborough.
3. Thou shalt spell your surname one way and one way only, eg not change it
from Bucket to Bouquet to impress your new circle of friends.
4. Thou shalt use the Christian name(s) given to you and not use a nickname
or choose a new one, eg amend Ellen Ann to Hannah Ellie or on whim
take on the name of your favourite soap star.
5. Thou shalt remain in the same area and not move around the country (or
world) willy nilly. But if you have to, please leave a paper trail with some
very good excuses as to why you gave your descendants lots of extra work.
6. Thou shalt make a will. Your descendants will be very nosey and want to
know what you were worth, where you lived, who you left your money to …
7. Thou shalt keep a true record of important family events. When you embark on your 7th marriage, please disclose to officials and your new family
the details of your previous marriages and any children. Your descendants will find out eventually but you will have led them a merry dance in the
meantime.
8. Thou shalt take plenty of photographs – and remember to date them and
record who is on each photo. The box of old faded family photographs is
always a welcome find to a family historian but absolutely useless if no-one
knows anything about each photograph.
9. Thou shalt do something notable. I’m not suggesting you go out and rob a
bank but if you can do something newsworthy, it will be reported in the local
and possibly national press and your descendants will be delighted to read
about you.
10. Thou shalt leave a sample of DNA. I truly believe that one day (hopefully
in my lifetime), a giant worldwide family tree will be revealed.
Susan Dyke, Family History Group 574541
Susandyke100@googlemail.com
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FRACKING
IN OUR OWN BACK YARD?
Could Planning Consent for Fracking in this part
of Yorkshire be granted in the near future?
The short answer is - possibly yes. Which is why The
Green Group is seeking to get a major speaker from
the Planning Profession to complete our assessment
of this complex and controversial issue. This will be
organised as an open meeting for all Wetherby
U3A members and friends - let us know if you are
interested and we will forward you details in due
course.
The Green Group decided at its Jan.'15 meeting to continue its examination of
'Fracking'. To date we have received detailed presentations from a Geologist on what
is involved in the fracking process. The Environment Agency have also given us a
presentation on how they will seek to control such activity. In November last year
Andrew Sully who works for the Eire Government gave us an insight into how that
country was engaging with its citizens on fracking proposals through EU environmental assessment procedures.
However it is through the planning process that ordinary members of the public,
including land owners of land upon or under where fracking is proposed, have the
best opportunity to engage with the Fracking industry. Land owners rights not to grant
consent for drilling under their land have now been taken away through recent
Parliamentary legislation. Planning controls on fracking have also been more tightly
defined giving less control by local communities than was previously available.
However it is still necessary for fracking companies to make their case to 'joe public'
through submission of a planning application.
As has been shown in a recent refusal of planning consent in Lancashire, the
public there have demonstrated they are not comfortable with the claimed tight control which Government and fracking companies will be met. All
the main political parties support the concept of
fracking which they believe will provide strategic
energy benefits to the country.
So can the planning process reassure us that
the environmental impacts from an emerging
fracking industry will be effectively controlled?
Hopefully this last of our presentations on fracking
will help us to decide.
Eric Cowin Green Group
581470 ericcowin@hotmail.com
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Letter from the Groups Coordinator
New year – new interests!
By the time the next Newsletter reaches you we will have celebrated the fifth
anniversary of our U3A and – who knows – maybe our 1000th member! In the
meantime we have more interest groups in development and have been taking
names for our latest short courses which are proving popular. Our meetings for new
members last year have also produced a range of new ideas for the future which can
be seen on the website page for New Groups, so please have a look there and see if
any of them would be of interest to you (simply find the baby in the Summary of Group
Activities and click on ‘New Groups’!!). Our New Groups Organiser awaits your
calls. Please remember that the ideas are yours, not ours, and our role is to support
you, our fellow members, in getting things off the ground. Groups do need leaders of
course or a few members who are prepared to share the various tasks involved in
running an interest group. However this need not be onerous and I know that making
a contribution – however small – brings its own rewards. It would be wonderful to beat
last year’s tally of 11 new groups and further expand the huge range of things for us
to do locally.
Here’s to another successful year of learning!
Jane Berry, Groups Coordinator 587641 u3a@jerberry.co.uk
News of New Groups
Excel The course in Excel will be held on Monday afternoons starting at the beginning of March. We have enough people to start the first course but please let me
know if you are interested as often people drop out or there may be a possibility of a
second course.
Calligraphy There are still places for beginners and improvers on the course starting after Easter.
I Pad This course will start in May, on Tuesdays and last for four weeks. There has
been a good take up for this course but if you are interested and would like to go on
the waiting list, please let me know.
Chess Jim Lobley would still like to hear from any chess players who would like to
meet up on a regular basis. jimlobley@btinternet.com 01937 579593
Spanish for Beginners 2 We will be having a meeting very soon about the start of
this Group. If you are interested in joining please let me know.
Italian for Beginners If anyone is interested in learning basic Italian please get in
touch.
First Aid It has been suggested that we organise courses, possibly run by the Red
Cross, in basic First Aid. If you are interested, please get in touch so I have some idea
of what the take up will be.
For further information on any of the above groups or course, please contact me.
Delia Wells 541517 dewels24@gmail.com
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Notable Changes
Art Appreciation - change of venue and day
now Deepdale Community Centre at 2pm on the 3rd Thursday of the month
Green new contact
Lyn Parkin 842142 lynh@parkinmail.net
Walking Ultra now meets on the 1st Monday of the month
(Apologies for error in the last Monthly Memo. Ed.)
News of the Established Groups
Reports from the Group Leaders
whose contact details are on pages 17 - 22
Art Appreciation
2014 was another year of fascinating monthly presentations and discussion, led
by individuals in the group, not experts, plus an invited speaker, Anne Goodchild,
who talked about the artists Christopher Wood, and Ben and Winifred Nicholson.
We have looked at the paintings, lives and
social contexts of individual and groups of artists (G.F. Watts and the Victorians and The
Staithes Painters) and art movements (Art Nouveau in Austria and Traditional and Modern Art
in Australia). We have discussed 19th and early
20th century landscape paintings in Russia, the
American West and Australia and the influence
of government propaganda. Other varied presentations covered were Art Installations, Women Artists (see photo), and Portraiture. Perhaps
our liveliest meeting was when we each talked
about “Our least favourite pictures”.
In January we had an enjoyable and light hearted afternoon with 20 people
present. Our theme was ‘If I had millions I would buy……’ with people revealing their
most desirable and expensive artwork.
The choices were very varied and included two Albrecht Durer watercolours (‘The
Large Turf’ and ‘The Hare’); Turner’s oil painting ‘Rain, Steam and Speed’; Hockney’s
‘Mr and Mrs Clarke and Percy’; an Ancient Greek Amphora; Peruvian and Persian
Rugs; Yayoi Kusama’s Infinity Mirror Room; Bust of Nefertiti and Bernini’s marble
‘Ecstasy of St Teresa of Avila’.
It was a feast for the eyes and heart followed by a feast of tea and nibbles to
celebrate the New Year.
Come and join us on the 3rd Thursday afternoon of the month. You do not need to
be knowledgeable about art. 2015 will include the following and a lot more:
26 February: Individual member gallery visits - Anselm Keifer: Rembrandt: The Uffizi
26 March: “Pin-ups through the centuries” Trudy Platt
Sarah Raynar 585794 sarahraynar@btinternet.com
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Birdwatching
The Wednesday Group got off to an excellent start
in 2015 with a visit to Staveley Carr Nature Reserve.
Over 40 species were seen including good views of a
treecreeper and a couple of redpolls, as well as the
sighting of an otter fishing. However the highlight of
the morning was a water rail (normally a very shy bird)
only a few meters away, pecking under the bird feeders near one of the hides. One of our group was able
to photograph this beautiful bird which looks so much
more colourful than in the guide books.
Both birding groups are currently full and there are a number of people on the
waiting list. We are looking into the possibility of forming a third group; if there is
anyone else wishing to join please contact one of us.
John Turner 842942 john@jandut.co.uk
Rosemary and Colin Cheshire 573373 candrc@tiscali.co.uk
Current Affairs
In November we had a very interesting and
informative talk from Matt Cameron from the Trussell Trust. The Trust has been responsible for
helping to set up a large number of Food Banks that
have, in recent years, spread across the UK. He
gave us something of its history since it was started
in 1997 to help homeless children in Bulgaria.
Matt told us how today people across the UK are
struggling to feed themselves and their families. We wanted to know why there had
been such a dramatic increase in the use of the Food Banks in the UK. He cited
redundancy, illness, benefit delay, benefit sanctions, domestic violence, debt, family
breakdown and paying for the additional costs of heating during winter as some of
the reasons why people go hungry. It was quite an eye-opener to find out how
regulated the distribution of food is from the Food Banks. Clients needing emergency
food have to obtain a voucher from voucher holders and bring it to a centre where it
can be redeemed for three days food.
A Food Bank has just been set up for the Wetherby and District area and Marion and Nick brought us up to date on how it was developing and we were give information on ways that we could help and get involved if we wanted to.
A date for your diary: The future of the NHS has been very much in the news
recently so we are very pleased to have someone from Harrogate General Hospital
coming to talk to us about the issue. It will be an open meeting so everyone is
welcome. Date:14 May 2.30 pm at St James’ Church rooms Wetherby.
Sandra Ellen 585036 srmesh@aol.com
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Days of Special Interest Group 1
Days of Special Interest Group 1 has now almost completed the planning of our
programme for 2015. Visits are arranged every month and this year will include visits
to Hearing Dogs for the Deaf, The Assay Office at Sheffield, Kilnwick Hall Buddhist
Centre and the Oxfam Recycling Depot, plus other interesting venues.
Each visit is arranged by different group members and we all very much appreciate
the work put in by these members to make our group so successful.
Pat Baron 520165 baron.wetherby@btinternet.com
Folk Dancing
We had a wonderful time performing at the December Open Meeting Showcase,
where we demonstrated our expertise, and then our lack of it, but most of all the fun
we have dancing. Several members of the audience joined us for ‘Blaydon Races’ and
we have gained some new members for our group once they saw there was nothing
to fear.
We always have a learning/refreshing session at the start of every morning, as
dancing only once a month allows for a lot of forgetting. This does mean that absolute
beginners can join at any time. This type of dancing is a really good work out mentally
and physically and it is fun – we laugh a lot.
Come and join us at Collingham Memorial Hall, the 4th Friday in the month
beginning about 9.30am and going on until 12.00pm. This sounds a lot but there are
breaks between sets of dances and a chance to chat and get to know people. Or
contact me and ask to be put on the emailing reminder list and I’ll contact you to tell
you in advance about the next session. Look forward to meeting you
Lesley Newnham 845773 l.newnham@talktalk.net
Play Reading Group 1
Now that 2014 is dead and gone we can look back and recall the many enjoyable
and funny plays read so brilliantly by the group. We have stretched our literary skills
to the full as we tackled Shakespeare, laughed out loud at the nonsense of some
farces, enjoyed the wonderful language of Noel Coward and tried to guess who dunnit
in a murder mystery play by Francis Durbridge.
To ring the changes we read some one-act plays which were popular and we
managed to get hold of a couple of scripts of Hancock’s Half-hour, including the
famous Blood Donor – still hilarious to-day. Old friends ’Hayfever’ and ‘Under
Milkwood’ were revisited.
To round off the year we read ‘Outside Edge’ by Richard Harris, a lovely tale of a local
cricket team. A bright summer afternoon was conjured up as we imagined the sound
of leather on willow, the polite hand-clap of the spectators and if “Miriam’s” renowned
cricket teas did not exactly come up to her high standards, it certainly brightened a
dull, dark, dreary November afternoon for the members of Play Reading Group 1.
Irene Howard 583248 Norma Chubb norma.chubb@talktalk.net
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Play Reading Group 2
It's a delight to be a part of this U3A group. We are a very disparate bunch!!!!
Desperate sometimes too when we're trying to tackle a variety of accents! But
whatever the challenge you can be sure that each session is filled with laughter and
fun.
Over the past year some of our members have met with bereavement, ill health
and family issues and the group has surrounded them with friendship, love and care.
I guess our group is not unusual in that...I'm sure many U3A groups would claim to
be of the same nature.
So over and above celebrating our group's play reading achievements I'd like to
celebrate the nurturing, caring aspect of our group and other U3A groups......treasure
beyond measure.
Anita Fearnley 584529 anitafearnley@hotmail.com
Travel Talks One advantage of helping to lead the Travel Talks Group is that we
never seem to be short of subjects, spanning the laid-back, just-taking-it easy variety
though to the vigorous pick-up-your-backpack type, and our last three meetings have
well illustrated this mix. Starting with an American Road Trip from Chicago to Philadelphia, finishing with an Attenborough style experience of Borneo wildlife, and in
between a tour of Quito and the Galapagos Islands.
Quito was an unexpected jewel, with the glorious clean, colourful and well preserved colonial houses of the Old Town intermingled with a variety of churches,
cathedrals and basilicas. There were great views over the city from the top of the
cable car at 15000 feet altitude. Right on the equator, but the altitude ensured that
temperatures were always comfortable.
Cruising around the various Galapagos islands in a comfortable catamaran needs
no recommendation. Incredible approachable wildlife, which completely ignored our
proximity (try not to step on an iguana), snorkelling with turtles and sea-lions, and
exploring the wild and inhospitable islands on foot, and always that sense of isolation
unspoilt by crowds. Boobies and Mocking Birds, Finches and Flamingos, Tortoises
and Tattlers, just a never-ending list of species. Don’t delay, go now, it will only get
more popular!!
A Land Iguana
(left)
A Yellow Warbler
(right)
Our program for the next three months includes Albania, Exploring the Baltic, and
Burma, and as always, all are welcome. See the web site for more details.
Glenys Pengilley 587522 alan-glenys@virginmedia.com
Rob Sharpe rob.sharpe@ntlworld.com
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Yorkshire and the Humber Regional Committee invite you to
Yorkshire Summer School 3rd - 6th August 2015
at Wentworth Castle, near Barnsley, S75 3ET website: yahrU3A.co.uk
Full Board Residential Delegate: £320
Non-Residential Day Delegate: £185
Full details are set out in the Booking Notes and Application Form
which are available on our website, or from Denise West.
Any queries please contact Denise West:- summerschool@yahrU3A.co.uk
18 Periwood Grove, Mill House Green, Sheffield, S8 0HX yahrU3A.co.uk
Northern College is part of Wentworth Castle near Barnsley. Most rooms will be
en suite in a modern accommodation block.
We plan to run 6 or 7 courses (subject to demand) across a range of disciplines
- drawing, climate change, history, criminology/DNA, philosophy, post-war literature and the romantics. Details of these and their leaders are available in "Topics
and Tutors" on the website or from Denise West.
After meeting your topic leader on Day 1 there will be two 2 hour sessions on
each of Day 2 and 3. The final morning will be an opportunity, for those groups
that wish to, to present to the other delegates.
FORTHCOMING OPEN MEETINGS
Wetherby Methodist Church at 2.30 p.m. unless otherwise stated
£2 entry for non members
Wednesday 25th February, Wednesday 25 March
and the last Wednesday in each month thereafter.
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This MONTHLY MEMO is a U3A news update for immediate ready reference.
The NEWSLETTER is usually published in February, July & November and the
MONTHLY MEMO on the remaining months except December.
See our web site www.wetherbyU3A.org.uk for further information such as Group
Leaders details and membership application forms.
>>Closing date for final copy for the March Monthly Memo will be Sat 14 March<<
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Website: www.wetherbyU3A.org.uk
Chair
Mike Green
582810 chairu3awetherby@gmail.com
Groups
Jane Berry
587641 u3a@jerberry.co.uk
Coordinator
Editor Newsletters & Monthly Memos 520180 joyce.bale@ntlworld.com
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